1. Employment figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
Change on year rounded to the nearest ten. "-" denotes blank
entries and "*" denotes entries that have been suppressed for
disclosure reasons. Totals may not equal the sum of individual
parts due to rounding.

2. Due to the reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc from
public sector financial institutions to the private sector (Q1
2014), a new category has been created combining public
corporations with public sector financial institutions to ensure
employment figures are not disclosed. Both categories have been
merged to produce a backseries prior to the reclassification to
allow for calculation of year on year changes.

3. Employment in public corporations & public sector
financial institutions has been largely affected by the
reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc. (and subsidiaries),
as well as Royal Mail plc. and Direct Line Group plc.

4. Police and Fire Reform: From Q2 2013 Police and Fire Services
have been reclassified as central government rather than local
government (as their predecessors were). All police staff are
employed by the Scottish Police Authority (
SPA) whether
deployed with the
SPA or with
the Police Service of Scotland. Although the
SPA is an
'Other Public Body' to avoid duplication and ensure comprehensive
numbers are reported for the Police and Fire category, from Q2 2013
all police staff have been included within the Police and Fire
category (and not in the Other Public Bodies category).

5. In October 2012 the Scottish Agricultural College (
SAC)
merged with 3 colleges to form Scotland's Rural College. This new
organisation is classified as a public body as the
SAC was.
This has resulted in staffing levels moving from the Further
Education to Other Public Bodies categories to reflect the merger
of these organisations. Although the
SPA is an
'Other Public Body' to avoid duplication and ensure comprehensive
numbers are reported for the Police and Fire category, from Q2 2013
all police staff have been included within the Police and Fire
category (and not in the Other Public Bodies category).

6. A number of local government staff have transferred to arms
length organisations which are part of the private sector under
National Accounts definitions. For example, staff transferrred from
Scottish Borders Council to
SB Cares on 1st April
2015 and from Angus Council to Angus Alive on 1st December 2015
thus explaining part of the decrease in local government
employment.

7. Information for further education colleges in Scotland is
based on actual information from Q4 2010. The method used to create
the back series is detailed in the background notes of this
publication.

8. From Q4 2011,
NHS has
responsibility for employing Healthcare staff within prisons.
Previously, these people were employed directly by the Scottish
Prison Service (
SPS). Also in Q2
2011 1,491 & 1,062
FTE headcount staff
transferred from Highland Council to
NHS Highland as
a result of the move to integrated health and social care
services.

10. Prior to Q2 2006, Scottish Borders Council headcount and
FTE figures do not
include Casual/Relief employees who were paid in the reference
period. This means that these figures underestimate the true
headcount and
FTE for Scottish
Borders Council.

11. In Q4 2015, Historic Scotland (previously part of the
devolved civil service) merged with the Royal Commission on the
Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (a non-departmental
public body in the other public bodies category) to become Historic
Environment Scotland in the Other Public Bodies category.

12. From Q2 2017, the Civil Service figures include the Scottish
Fiscal Commission.